Windbreaks are an important ecological resource across the large expanse of agricultural land in the central United States and are often planted in straight-line or L-shaped configurations to serve specific functions. As high-resolution (i.e., <5 m) land cover datasets become more available for these areas, semior fully-automated methods for distinguishing windbreaks from other patches of trees...

Accurate modeling of windbreaks is essential for the precise assessment wind protection performance. However, in most windbreak studies, models used approximate shape simulated trees, resulting significant differences between results and actual situation. In this study, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) was to extract tree parameters, which were a quantitative structural model (AdQSM) recreate s...

The flow speed-up generated by windbreaks can be used to increase the power production of wind turbines. However, due increased drag imposed windbreaks, their use in large turbine arrays has been questioned. We eddy simulations show that farms. A crucial finding is a farm should much lower than for single case. In fact, optimal windbreak an isolated reduce performance. height namely depends on ...